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Web Discoveries for June 24th

These are my del.icio.us links for June 24th Node | world leader in Location Based Media – Clever, if rather corporate looking site that says it’s authors seem to have their heads screwed on when it comes to mixed reality applications. Atlas Obscura | Wondrous, curious & bizarre locations around the world – All credit […]

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Virtual Reality

AR is considered by some to be a logical progression of VR technologies (Liarokapis, 2006; Botella, 2005; Reitmayr & Schmalstieg, 2001), a more appropriate way to interact with information in real-time that has been granted only by recent innovations. Thus, one could consider that a full historical appraisal would pertain to VR’s own history, plus […]

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Drunken Monkey Hypothesis

In keeping with the Darwinian zeitgeist, here’s a piece on Human Taxonomy, which postulates that the reason we love alcohol (and who doesn’t?!) is all in the genes, but, like, from WAY back.

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Gutter Talk

Gutter Talk: Hot & Cool in the World of Comic Books The medium we call comics is based on a simple idea: the idea of placing one picture after another to show the passage of time. Legendary comic artist Will Eisner defines comics as ‘sequential art’. The idea that art can be ‘joined up’ to […]

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